Relating referential clarity and phonetic clarity in infant-directed speech.

ABSTRACT: Psycholinguistic research on children's early language environments has revealed many potential challenges for language acquisition. One is that in many cases, referents of linguistic expressions are hard to identify without prior knowledge of the language. Likewise, the speech signal itself varies substantially in clarity, with some productions being very clear, and others being phonetically reduced, even to the point of uninterpretability. In this study, we sought to better characterize the language-learning environment of American English-learning toddlers by testing how well phonetic clarity and referential clarity align in infant-directed speech. Using an existing Human Simulation Paradigm (HSP) corpus with referential transparency measurements and adding new measures of phonetic clar

SUBMITTER: Beech C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10884346 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature